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The Weather Fair and Warmer Tuesday THE BATTLE ENQUIRER and NEW Lose something? Let a CLASSIFIED AD trace the finder. PHONE WO 4-7161 PRICE scoptb 6 CENTS BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1956-20 PAGES-2 SECTIONS CITY EDITION FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR i La Eden Set for Showdown On Mystery of Frogman 200 Injured, Damage Set Tensions Seen Lifting For Wind-Wary Citizens At a sion station and a local radio station reported that a twister had been sighted in the Kalamazoo area and was headed this way. This was never confirmed and no danger actually developed. Flood Threat Faces Many Areas of State LONDON CfP) Prime Minister Eden mapped government strategy for tonight's showdown parliament session on his handling of the strange case of the missing British frogman and the Soviet warships. Eden was headed for a sharp grilling in the House of Commons debate.

Press Shares Spying Idea Angry leaders of the Labor opposition want to know just what retired Naval Diver Lionel Crabb (Picture on Page 14) Wind-wary Battle Creek residents, tired and nervous after three tornado alerts in as many days, scanned the skies anxiously this morning as gusts up to 40 miles per hour swept the city for a period. There was no indication, however, that the area would be alerted to the possibility of twisters again soon. Instead, fair and A special meeting of the tion during the three weekend twister alerts. The first was issued at 7 p.m. Friday when a heavy black cloud was sighted bearing down on the city after two previous reports of funnel sightings in the Kalamazoo and Dowagiac areas.

A twister scare about 8 p.m. Saturday sent many local residents scurrying for protective cover after the Kalamazoo televi ficer was "testing underwater apparatus and refused to go into details. In the debate tonight, Laborite legislators hoped to force Eden into supplying the details. Crabb was seen swimming near the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze and two accompanying vessels on April 19 the day after and arrived in Britain. He has not been seen since.

The admiralty said he was "presumed dead," but didn't explain why that was presumed. Writes Mother from Hotel Gleanings of information here and there have built up this puzzling account of the events Chamber of Commerce tornado warning committee is scheduled for this afternoon at the cham DETROIT Six died iri the 20 screaming tornadoes that left 200 injured ber building at 2 p.m. to discuss (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) cooler weather is forecast for and property damage esti- a World War II hero was do tonight and Tuesday. Cold Front Lifts Danger mated at more than three million dollars in Michigan lover the weekend, i Winds destroyed or damaged A Tense 20 Minutes and -That Could Have Been It ing in the icy waters of Portsmouth Harbor near the Russian warships that brought Premier Bulganin and party chief Nikita that led up to Crabb disappearance.

The diver and a arrived at the port of Portsmouth April 17 and checked in at the Sallyport Hotel. From over 200 homes and upward of another 300 were evacuated as flooding streams threatened to inundate them. Some commercial Khrushchev to Britain. When the question first came up in Commons last week, Eden said Crabb was operating "with The climax of hours of anxious! the hotel, Crabb wrote his aged waiting for many Battle Creek residents came at 1 a.m. Sunday when word was flashed that a William Husted, Flood Warn-! ing Station director, said this: morning that stabilized air con-1 ditions now exist in the area and that there is no present danger of tornadoes developing.

He said a cold front moved into the area about dawn this morning, bringing in much cooler, dryer air from thu northwest, replacing the troubled air conditions of the previous three days. During the trouble period warm, moist air was being swept up from the Gulf of Mexico, colliding with colder air from the north and causing turbulence. mother that he was "going on a utes of tense watching, the danger was over. The cloud had not formed a tornado. The word was flashed by two local radio stations that the warning had been lifted and the area had been returned to alert status.

On into the early hours of the buildings and factories also sui-fered wind or flood damage. Flint Hit Hardest Worst hit were the Flint area job, but it's a simple mission." tornado might be forming three miles west, northwest of Battle out, authorization" and that it would not be in the nation's best interests to say more. The Russians insist the diver was spying. The British press generally has agreed. Eden said the retired naval of- and adjoining Allen Park and Lincoln Park, Detroit suburbs.

Flint had three tornado dead from three twisters which roared morning, however, the watching and checking continued. Vigilance Creek and moving northeast. Prior to this there had been many false local reports each of which had been checked carefully and listed as unconfirmed. But, this could be it. Originated at Custer was not relaxed.

ft An all-clear was given for most through its eastern outskirts at supper time Saturday. Ithaca, 50 miles northwest of Flint, had an of lower Michigan by the Detroit Between 1:30 p.m. Friday and 10 p.m. Sunday local residents The reDort originated with the AP Wirepnoto. This unoccupied school bus was picked up and tossed against a utility pole at Flint by the force of one of Saturday's tornadoes.

other. spent a total of 38 hours' under alert conditions and on two Weather Bureau about 3:30 a.m. The final all-clear came about 4:45 a.m. The night of watchful waiting was over. Continue 3 Days Two men, one in Muskegon and He told her not to worry and that he'd be back in about two days.

The following day the Soviet ships pulled into port. On April 20, the Soviet commander, Rear Adm. V. F. Kotov, questioned British Rear Adm.

P. W. Burnett about a mysterious frogman Soviet sailors had spotted surfacing near the visiting ships. Burnett said he knew nothing about it. A day later a British police official removed four pages from the Sallyport Hotel register, including the registration of Crabb and Smith.

No Certificate Issued The British admiralty announced April 29 that Crabb had 3 Die, 1 Missing As Ships Collide Big Freighter Cuts Lumber Ship in Two F.t. Custer radar post, which had Notified the FCDA Region Four headquarters here of a huge "weather build-up" which might produce a tornado. The report another in Saginaw, died of heart occasions, they were warned to take cover when tornadoes were reported heading toward the city. attacks attributed to anxiety over Shift in 4 Jet Stream' Linked To Rash of Twisters in State The twisters, however, did not approaching storms. Lower Michigan had a seven-hour tornado alert and one small materialize.

The final alert of the weekend twister Friday that dipped into was broadcast at noon Sunday, the northwestern outskirts of MONTEREY, Calif. UP) seven and a half hours after the prolonged danger period extend Kalamazoo, but injured no one. was then relayed to tne tsauie Creek Flood Warning Station. As an Enquirer and News reporter was walking into the Flood Warning Station at Kellogg Field, William F. Hustdd, local weatherman, was passing the word to the radio stations and police and fire departments.

A violent electrical storm was Three men lost their lives and Coalition Wins Austrian Vote Raab Conservatives Gain 8, Socialists 2 Saturday a warning came at noon two others are presumed dead as a freighter sheared ing from 5 p.m. Saturday to i.M a.m. Sunday was lifted. At 10 o'clock last night word and the first of 19 terrifying twisters hit some five hours later. Sunday night there was one, a baby tornado that dipped into the Menominee airport and was relayed over radio and television that the final alert was lashing out.

The sky to the north and to the west was filled with ominous black clouds. wrecked a sheet metai hangar lifted. Danger Signal Flashed The most serious threat came VIENNA, Austria (Chan and three airplanes. Observation points were alert cellor Julius Raab's Conserva Torrential rains were dragged shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday when ed to pay particular attention to through a little lumber ship off the Monterey coast before dawn today.

The Howard Olson, a coastwide steam schooner, en route from Los Angeles to Coos Bay, for a load of lumber, sank several hours after it was rammed and sliced in two by the much larger freighter, Marine Leopard. 22 Crewmen Rescued The collision occurred about tives pushed within one seat of the area. a majority in parliament in Aus-j tria's first national election since Observers Tense The Ft. Custer radar scanned the end of the four-power the clouds. Observers everywhere Michigan Tornado Pictures Page 16 presumably died nine days earlier.

It gave no details and no death certificate was issued. Russia, in an outburst of press criticism climaxed by a diplomatic note to Britain, charged Crabb was "acting in an unfriendly manner" by spying on the Ordzhonikidze and her escorts. The British stand pieced together from admiralty statements and the British reply to the Kremlin note appears to be open admission Crabb was diving near the ships That he was there without permission That he probably met his death there That those responsible for his escapade have been disciplined. The British say they "deeply regret" the whole affair and ob Vice Chancellor Adolf Schaerf DETROIT Iff) A shift in the high-flying jet air stream was blamed today for the abundance of tornadoes in the northern United States in recent years. Dr.

Everet R. Phelps, professor of physics and astronomy at Wayne University, predicted the jet stream will shift southward again to its normal location within the next few years. Explains Jet Stream Meteorologists believe a return of the jet stream to its "normal location" will mean hurricanes would remain farther south and there will be fewer tornadoes as far north as Michigan," Dr. Phelps explained. The jet stream is a relatively narrow band of air encircling the earth and moving west to east at velocities from 100 to 300 miles an hour.

It usually barrels along six to 10 miles high over the northern United States. However. Dr. Phelps said, the jet stream seems to have shifted a little more to the north in recent years to a position over our northern border or over southern Canada. Affects Surface Winds That shift has affected surface winds, he added.

As a result, all weather phenomena including hurricanes and tornadoes now occur farther north. Dr. Phelps said one essential condition for tornadoes a layer of unusuallv warm moist air extended over the entire Lower Peninsula of Michigan Saturday night when 19 tornadoes roared down. When the other 25 necessary conditions fell into place, the scientist continued, the warm surface air rose up through the upper cold air. Then currents of air rush dswn into the gap left by the upward moving stream, forming the deadly tornado which whirls rapidly in a counter-clockwise direction because of the earth's rotation.

were tense, ready to leap for a telephone if they sighted anything resembling a tornado. said his Socialist Party is ready to loin Raab party a renewal The lightning was actually an Mr. Husted received a report that radar had picked up a possible tornado developing just three miles northwest of Battle Creek. He immediately went on the radio by telephone recording with a "warning" bulletin, advising residents of northeast sections of the city to take "extreme precautions." Those listening to radios were asked to phone their neighbors if they had gone to bed. About 20 minutes later the warning was lifted, but people were advised to stay by their radios because of continued evi aid in observation.

Between awe of the Conservative-Socialist coalition government which has ruled Austria since World War eight miles south of Point Sur. All the casualties were from the crew of the Howard Olson. After rescuing 22 of the Olson crewmen, and conducting an unsuccessful search for the two missing men, the Marine Leopard turned back to San Francisco. It had been headed south. Two Coast Guard cutters put inspiring flashes, the sky was black.

Nothing could be seen. When the lightning flashed, the illumination so bright that the details of the cloud formations could be clearly seen. Mr. Husted and his men kept a sharp eye on the big weather buildup in the area. Constant along by most of the twisters.

Some brought hail. Streams Shoot Up Streams already swollen by recent rains shot upward anew. The Flint River' jumped over its banks at Flint, splitting the business section of Michigan's third largest city for a time Sunday. It began receding, however, and II. The Conservatives picked up eight seats in Sunday's election and immediately proclaimed a halt to further nationalization of industry.

Only about 40 per cent of Austrian, industry remains under private control. Raab will form a new cabinet viously hope the Kremlin will let dence of heavy storm build-ups in Tjack into Monterey Bay after jj drop. checks were made of the weather the area. Not until 4:30 Sunday morning was the alert finally bureau teletype machine which fear that an above-town dam might blow out subsided. tlanged forth from a corner of cancelled.

The Grand at Grand Rapids, The Sunday morning warning which, like the Flint, had forced the fire equipment garage at the Flood Warning Station. And then after about 20 min was the second issued by the searcmng, wunoui avail, ioi uie missing men. I 'Copter Takes Off Injured I Another member of the Olson crew, injured seriously, was tak-j en by helicopter to the naval dis-1 pensary at Monterey. The Howard Olson's stern went down soon after the crash. Three hours after the collision Sees Democrats Still iA Doubt About Nominee Battle Creek Flood Warning Sta at the request of President Theo-dor Koerncr.

He is considered certain to negotiate for another coalition with the Socialists. But his improved position gives the Conservative chief the alternative of dealing with the extreme right wing Freedom League if the Socialists balk at his program evacuations in low-lying areas, and most other streams were able to absorb weekend rainfall and quickly return to a falling status. GM Recalls Other H-Bomb Test Firing Remains Indefinite ABOARD USS MT. McKINLEY UO Wheather experts who last But scattered thunderstorms for a brake on nationalization of Hawaii's 6 Delegates Instructed for Adlai HONOLULU Cff) Hawaii's six delegates to the Democratic National Convention were instructed to vote for Adlai Stevenson as the party's territorial convention closed yesterday. Instruction came in a Auto Firms Extend Layoffs (Special to the Enquirer and News) WASHINGTON Postmaster continued last night in the wake of the twisters, and occasional showers were the outlook today.

only the bow section of the schooner remained afloat. Coast Guard casualty figures came from the master of the General Arthur E. Summerfield, industry. In the 'unofficial but complete returns, Raab's Conservative People's Party won 82 seats and the night postponed the "Shot Chero freighter John B. Waterman In addition the Detroit weather bureau said a low pressure area moving up from the southwest the former Michigan automobile dealer who managed the 1952 Eisenhower campaign, advises for one day only and workers returned to their jobs today as ordered.

Saturday is not considered a regular working day. kee" H-bomb test for the seventh Socialists gained two seats for time to Wednesday morning a total of 75. you not to bet any money on which picked up one survivor and one body from the 55-degree water. Others were picked up by the Marine Leopard. (Tuesday.

U.S. time) today in Follows Reuther Blast The announcement of extended The Freedom League dropped from 14 to 5 and the Communists dicated unfavorable winds prob-ablv would cause another delay The collision occurred at 2:53 DETROIT (IP) General Motors Corp. recalled 400,000 hourly-1 rated workers today but two other automotive companies announced they were extending layoffs, leaving the industry with a serious unemployment problem. American Motors Corp. said 4,550 auto workers in Milwaukee and Kenosha, who were scheduled to return to work today will not be called back.

Chrysler Corp. extended a two- The convention also asked that Congress grant the territory the sliooed from 4 to 3 seats. a.m. FDT) That's about indicated "a good chance" of general rain in southern counties tonight. Worst Night in Records Saturday night was the worst experienced weatherwise by Michigan in the 82 years that its records cover, the Detroit weather bureau said.

"It was a victory for Austria's layoffs by Chrysler and American Motors followed by one day a blast by United Auto Workers' Union President Walter P. Reu to Thursday. Conditions forecast for Tues miles south of San Francisco and right to elect its own governor future." Raab said. 120 miles south of this plush Mon day and Wednesday "are not ac His finance minister, Reinhard Kamitz, said the election "makes ther that layoffs by GM and ceptable, this mornings com terey Bay resort area. K.

W. Anderson, officer in charge of the Coast Guard light it sure the further nationahza munique said, with little evidence Chrysler were an attempt to conceal the seriousness of the current unemployment situation But the deaths didn't approach tion of industry will be stopped. of a favorable change by Wednesday "although such a possibil who the 19d6 Democratic presidential nominee will be. "Returns from the primaries have been too indecisive so far," in his expert opinion. "It's simply too soon to make predictions." Mr.

Summerfield gave up his post as Republican national chairman when he joined the Eisenhower cabinet, and says he'll attend this year's Republican convention in a "purely unofficial" capacity along with other cabinet members. But he still keeps an eye on the political front in his spare time and says he is watching SPOTLIGHT On the Neivs the 17 in a series of twisters that battered western Michigan day layoff of 6,500 workers for one more day, through tomorrow. Car Demand Fails only five weeks ago, or the devas- house at Point Sur, said all he could see before dawn was the search lights of rescuse vessels and flares dropped by a Coast Guard airplane. At dawn, all he could see of the Olson was An AMC spokesman said his lty must not be ruled out. The forecasters blamed winds from the north which would carry radioactive fallout from an explosion over inhabited islands in the Marshall group.

(Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) company callback was post poned because demand for its the bow section. large cars Nash and Hudson- In Your Paper Today failed to increase as expected. Taking part in the rescue were The idled workers include 450 in Milwaukee and 3,100 in Kenosha in the automobile industry. Reuther, who only Friday predicted a "worsening of the situation," said government economists placed the total layoff figure at 148,000 as of May 5.

"That doesn't include the most recent Chrysler layoffs, nor GM's one day shutdown," he said. "There is every indication that many thousands more actually are now on layoff or on short work weeks." Reuther said the shorter week "spread the burden of unemployment on the backs of the workers" whom he called "victims of the Leopard, the Waterman, a tug, an Associated Oil Co. tanker and two Coast Guard cutters. TORNADOES KILL 6 in state, leave 200 injured, cause flood threats. EDEN SET TO FACE Labor Party grilling on frogman.

THREE DIE as two ships collide in Pacific. RUSSIA REPORTED planning to eliminate concentration camps. who were laid off March 22 and BULLETIN MOSCOW U) The Soviet Union announced today it is slashing its armed forces by 1,200,000 men. A government statement read to reporters at a news conference in the Foreign Ministry said also that 63 army divisions plus three air divisions, including more than 30,000 men now stationed in East Germany, would be disbanded. It also declared the Soviet Union would put 375 ships of its navy into ATOM SCIENTISTS MEET MOSCOW UP! U.S.

atomic scientists joined with Soviet physicists today at the first nuclear conference in the Soviet Union ever attended by American 23 and another 1,000 Hid off in Milwaukee on April 20. Michigan with special interest. "With a well organized Republican campaign upstate, we will see the return to Michigan of the kind of administration President Eisenhower has given the nation," Mr. Summerfield Production of the company Page Births 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 19 Editorials, Columnists 6 News Notes 7 Radio and TV 9 Regional News 5 Sports 11, 12 Stock Markets 10 Weather 2 Where to Go 2 Women's News 3 QUAKE JOLTS CALIFORNIA PASADENA Calif. (IP) A fairly strong earthquake jarred a section of southern California this morning.

smaller Rambler has continued and some 6,000 workers at Keno sha and another 400 at Milwaukee have remained on the job, he said. the reckless, irresponsible scheduling of production on the part Automotive assembly operations Red Concentration Camps On Way Out, Official Says of the industry in 19ao were halted at GM plants Friday 2 in Every 3 Job Accidents Preventable. Savs Mitchell -Handles Like a Kiddie Car- MOSCOW A high secret) The official said a special police official says the Soviet commission has been ordered to. New Sub Nautilus Has AH the Comforts of Home Union will abolish its concen- review sentences 01 persuiia ran- and that states, communities and the public all should combine to help minimize the human and victed of political, counter revo tration camps within the next 18 WASHINGTON Wt Secretary of Labor Mitchell said today that two-thirds of the nearly two million job accidents recorded last year could have been prevented through greater safety efforts. lutionary and state crimes, and to rehabilitate the innocent all by October.

By H. D. QUIGG NEW YORK (IP) Being shoved by atomic power on a roller months. He told a group of visiting French Socialists the change would leave only ordinary prisons and "corrective labor colonies" for errant Russians. Bares Red Penal Plans The official, whose name could 37,000 miles without refueling.

More than 21,000 miles of that distance it was fully submerged. Its submerged hours now total 1,762. It performs better and faster submerged than on the surface. The passenger gets a sensation of quiet, of little vibration, and of plenty of space to move around in. You can't look out, but the The accidents Tesulted in Associated Press Foreign News coaster ride through the depths of the Atlantic has all the comforts Analyst William" L.

Ryan writes: 0f home, if you do it on the USS Nautilus. The new Soviet Union restric-i While careening through the heavy-pressure deep at flank 200 deaths, he said. tions on cencentration camps and speed in simulated wartime evasive tactics, you get no more feeling interior is attractive in pastel colors witft aaaea leatures like a coke vending machine, an ice cream maker, individually operated air conditioning for each bunk, subdued fluorescent lighting, and of alarm or discomlort tnan you qo in a living room ruvuug tuau. not be disclosed, gave the French forced deportation obviously is Socialist a rundown of Soviet designed to make the Communist Handles Like Kiddie Car leadership popular at home and respectable abroad. Ike Listed As Speaker Mitchell's remarks were prepared for the opening session of President Eisenhower's three-day conference on occupational safety.

Eisenhower also was due to address the more than 2,000 business, labor and farm leaders. Eisenhower called the confer And the Nautilus handles like a seagoing kiddie car as far as ease of controls goes. I tried running it myself, veering, swooping, climbing with guidance, of course, from expert officers of the even TV (if you re on the surface ana near enougnt 10 a The only cramped sensation is when you're boarding or leaving, when you go down or up a vertical ladder in a tiny rounded hatch. Air Is Clean, Fresh The air is clean and fresh, and at no time, even during the It is one of a series of recent moves. The goal is to create aj favorable atmosphere for push- economic losses resulting from accidents.

Exceed Losses in Disasters "We are shocked by newspaper headlines of a great disaster," he said. "Yet three times as many workers died on the job last year as in the Chicago fire, the Boston Cocoanut Grove night club fire, the Hartford circus fire, the sinking of the Titanic, the Johnstown flood and the San Francisco earthquake, combined." Mitchell said employers have a big stake. He cited an estimate that loss of skill means the employer's cost of a work injury to a worker is four times the cost of injury compensation. The labor secretary said 1955 work injuries cost the nation 193 million days of work. He said this was enough to produce 100 million refrigerators, or 200 million men's suits, or Vh.

billion pairs of shoes, or 26,000 jet bombers, a million six-room homes, or mine two billion tons of coal. ins the Soviet campaign of peace penal plans during their visit to the Tula corrective labor camp 80 miles south of Moscow. It holds non-political prisoners, such as thieves and murderers. He said the corrective labor camps would contain factories where the convicts would work. They could not be sent to outside projects as is done in the concentration camns.

he explained. ful coexistence and a broad united steepest and deepest dives, was there any feeling of compression. The ence and proclaimed this week as "Job Safety Week" throughout nuclear powered submarine. I sat in the control room, manipulating a gadget that looks almost exactly like the half-wheel and stick that an airplane pilot uses. Forward, in the crew's mess, 54 crewmen watched a movie, "Santa Fe Passage," shortly afterwards.

Up a deck, in the officers' wardroom, one of four channels of a built-in music system, which runs throughout the submarine, played jazz. History's first atomic powered vehicle, the Nautilus, air pressure stavs constant. The Nautilus can run submerged indefinitely because her power the nation. In doing so, he said, that "an occupational accident, plant needs no oxveen. and that's the way she runs most, of the time.

And take it from me, that's the way to travel at sea. No wavy was put through its undersea paces which make it one of the dead unov-downv. in the factory, on the farm, or on the construction site, has three certain results human suffering to the victim, economic loss to Already, the official said, de portation of Soviet citizens to After we had finished our acrobatic demonstration, we leveled out under water for the rest of the journey, and I slept on my foam front with foreign Socialists, the aim being to work together to put a stop to Western rearmament The new Soviet policy and an earlier announcement that workers are free to quit their jobs indicates an eagerness of the Communist leadership to win the approval of Soviet citizens. The concentration camps and deportations can be blamed on Stalin. liest vessels ever designee; lor navai wariare in a aeep-waier demonstration for a Darty of newsmen.

We were aboard on an the employer, and waste of rubber mattress with no more sensation of movement in any direc tion than if I had been on my bed at home. precious skills to the country." distant sections is forbidden, except for those convicted of serious political crimes. And deportation even in those cases, he said, can come only after trial by Mitchell said safety should be overnight run from Croton, to New York. The trip was 250 miles, or, "83 leagues under the sea," as Jules Verne might have termed it for his mythical Nautilus. When we reached New York Harbor yesterday afternoon, the Nautilus had traveled, during its first 16 months at sea, more than Because it can utilize space that conventional submarines use gin in the home, as an atmosphere for fostering safety on the job, (Please Turn to Page 2, Col.

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